{"id":3918,"date":"2012-03-08T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T23:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:39:43","slug":"bulls-eye-benthic-foraminifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/bulls-eye-benthic-foraminifera\/","title":{"rendered":"Benthic foraminifera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 426px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3919\" title=\"foram\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foram.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foram.gif 426w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foram-300x264.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benthic forams disappear during periods of ocean acidification. Credit: Ellen Thomas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>This foram survived a mass extinction event, only to disappear nine million years later.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foraminifera are among the most common marine plankton species. The single-celled <em>Stensioeina beccariiformis<\/em> [above] once ranged across many depths in all oceans.<\/p>\n<p>It managed to survive the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, but it went extinct nine million years later, when the oceans acidified due to a massive CO2 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This foram survived a mass extinction event, only to disappear nine million years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-images","category-bulls-eye","category-marine-biology","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}